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Blood on the Sawdust Trail
Paperback
Series: Circuit Rider Mysteries, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A man repents. A man dies. And the truth is buried in the sawdust.
Redemption, Colorado. Summer, 1887. When Reverend Elias Cane rides into
town to help with a week-long revival, he finds a community gripped by fear.
A ruthless land speculator named Silas Moon has spent three years stripping
in the valley has a reason to want him dead.
On the final night of the revival, Moon does the unthinkable: he walks the
sawdust trail to the altar and kneels in repentance. Minutes later, he is
found dead - stabbed with the revival's own ceremonial knife, in the
sawdust, before God and two hundred witnesses.
Everyone had a motive. No one saw anything. And the killer is still in town.
Cane joins forces with Deputy Marshal Grace Holloway to unravel a web of
secrets that runs deeper than one man's greed - a false prophet hiding behind
borrowed credentials, a physician who followed Moon across three states, a
grieving widow who will not surrender her land, and a young woman who rode
two days to look her father in the face one last time.
As Cane closes in on the truth, someone makes clear that preachers are meant
to bury the dead - not dig them up.
Blood on the Sawdust Trail is the first book in the Circuit Rider
Mysteries - a series of faith-driven frontier mysteries set in the American
West of the 1880s, where justice is hard-won, mercy is costly, and the
truth has a way of coming forward whether anyone wants it to or not.
Perfect for readers who love historical mysteries, Western fiction,
and stories where faith meets the harsh realities of the frontier.
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